Usually it was made of lightweight cardboard with a brightly colored picture on the front. On each of the first 25 days of December I got to punch out the number corresponding to the date to get my prize. Usually a small piece of tree-, santa-, reindeer-, or gift-shaped chocolate.
From the ages of 2 to 12 that was enough.
But these days I'm excited by more unique advent calendars. One which you can fill yourself with a variety of treats, prizes, or little gifts. I found some darling ones on Etsy.com (which is also a secret vice, but that's another post).
I absolutely adore this advent calendar made of a string of mini stockings from karlacola.
I love this Christmas tree made of stacked, craft paper-covered boxes from LBlal001.
Or, for more flexibility, there are these adorable cotton baggies from nuvonova.
Now, the real question is: What would you put in your advent calendar?
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Very cute! We have a quilt-like Advent calendar with tiny presents that you can Velcro on each day of the month. But in truth, it's been a while since we've used it as my kids are basically grown now!
I just bought a Hello Kitty advent calendar, Kitty+chocolate= cute and yummie!
The boys each have a cardboard one that they can't wait to tear into each morning. I've been looking for the perfect wooden one but haven't found it yet.
Um... chocolate, of course! I loved advent calendars when I was a kid, simply because of the cheap, yet yummy chocolates inside. These days, I don't know - maybe a giant one that could hold books?
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